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Alcohol Administration Prior to Sleep: The Effect on EEG Sleep Stages

Alcohol Administration Prior to Sleep: The Effect on EEG Sleep Stages Abstract THE DISCOVERY that alterations in electroencephalographic (EEG) sleep patterns can be quantified has provoked numerous studies of the relationship of changes in sleep-stage control, to a variety of biochemical parameters and clinical problems. Ethyl alcohol,1,2 as well as a number of psychotropic drugs,3,4 have been found to affect the control of sleep stages. When ethyl alcohol was administered orally immediately before retiring to three subjects for five consecutive nights, EEG stage I rapid eye movement (REM) sleep time was depressed the first night, but over the next three alcohol nights returned to control levels; on the fifth alcohol night, REM time exceeded control levels and remained at a high level for the following two recovery nights. By the fourth recovery night REM time finally returned to control levels.1 The present study was undertaken to determine if similar effects on REM time occurred if References 1. Yules, R.B.; Freedman, D.X.: and Chandler, K.A.: The Effect of Ethyl Alcohol on Man's Electroencephalographic Sleep Cycle , Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol 20:109-111, 1966.Crossref 2. Yules, R.B., et al: The Effect of Ethyl Alcohol on Electroencephalographic Sleep Cycles in Cats , Psychonomic Science 5:97, 1966.Crossref 3. Oswald, I., et al: Melancholia and Barbiturates: A Controlled EEG, Body and Eye Movement Study of Sleep , Brit J Psychiat 109:66-78, 1963.Crossref 4. Rechtschaffen, A., and Maron, L.: The Effect of Amphetamine on the Sleep Cycle , Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol 16:438-445, 1964.Crossref 5. Dement, W.: The Effect of Dream Deprivation , Science 131:1705-1707, 1960.Crossref http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of General Psychiatry American Medical Association

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0003-990X
eISSN
1598-3636
DOI
10.1001/archpsyc.1967.01730190096012
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Abstract

Abstract THE DISCOVERY that alterations in electroencephalographic (EEG) sleep patterns can be quantified has provoked numerous studies of the relationship of changes in sleep-stage control, to a variety of biochemical parameters and clinical problems. Ethyl alcohol,1,2 as well as a number of psychotropic drugs,3,4 have been found to affect the control of sleep stages. When ethyl alcohol was administered orally immediately before retiring to three subjects for five consecutive nights, EEG stage I rapid eye movement (REM) sleep time was depressed the first night, but over the next three alcohol nights returned to control levels; on the fifth alcohol night, REM time exceeded control levels and remained at a high level for the following two recovery nights. By the fourth recovery night REM time finally returned to control levels.1 The present study was undertaken to determine if similar effects on REM time occurred if References 1. Yules, R.B.; Freedman, D.X.: and Chandler, K.A.: The Effect of Ethyl Alcohol on Man's Electroencephalographic Sleep Cycle , Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol 20:109-111, 1966.Crossref 2. Yules, R.B., et al: The Effect of Ethyl Alcohol on Electroencephalographic Sleep Cycles in Cats , Psychonomic Science 5:97, 1966.Crossref 3. Oswald, I., et al: Melancholia and Barbiturates: A Controlled EEG, Body and Eye Movement Study of Sleep , Brit J Psychiat 109:66-78, 1963.Crossref 4. Rechtschaffen, A., and Maron, L.: The Effect of Amphetamine on the Sleep Cycle , Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol 16:438-445, 1964.Crossref 5. Dement, W.: The Effect of Dream Deprivation , Science 131:1705-1707, 1960.Crossref

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Archives of General PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association

Published: Jan 1, 1967

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